Antiosteoporosis Effect of Radix Scutellariae Extract on Density and Microstructure of Long Bones in Tail-Suspended Sprague-Dawley Rats

Table 2

Biochemical parameters in rat urine and serum within various treatment groups.

Parameters	Treatments
	CH	TS	TS-ALE	TS-RSE
S-Ca (mM)	2.43±0.18	2.34±0.08	2.42±0.22	2.35±0.19
S-P (mM)	1.68±0.05	1.71±0.08	1.64±0.16	1.66±0.14
OC (pg/mL)	0.21±0.02	0.23±0.03	0.20±0.01	0.20±0.03
ALP (μg/L)	191.89±13.76	275.98±20.11^∗∗∗	196.66±3.50^###	197.80±15.96^###
TRACP (pg/L)	2351.54±257.77	3178.12±196.41^∗∗∗	2368.72±461.65^##	2390.20±456.81^##
U-Ca/Cr (mM/mM)	0.57±0.06	1.58±0.19^∗∗∗	0.70±0.15^###	0.95±0.05^###
U-P/Cr (mM/mM)	5.54±0.48	8.11±1.45^∗	6.22±0.29^#	5.90±0.68^#
DPD/Cr (mM/mM)	0.15±0.05	0.43±0.05^∗∗∗	0.26±0.03^###	0.25±0.04^###
CTx (μg/L)	4.72±0.33	5.60±0.19^∗∗	4.63±0.22^###	4.68±0.36^##
NTx (nM)	14.96±0.86	19.29±0.36^∗∗∗	15.39±2.45^##	15.95±2.35^#

S-Ca: serum Ca; S-P: serum phosphorus; OC: osteocalcin; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; TRACP: tartrate resistant acid phosphatase; U-Ca: urinary Ca; U-P: urinary phosphorus; CTx: type I collagen carboxy-terminal peptide; NTx: type I collagen aminoterminal peptide; DPD: deoxypyridinoline; Cr: creatinine.
*versus CH group: *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, and ***𝑃<0.001.
^#versus TS group: ^#P <0.05, ^##𝑃<0.01, and ^###𝑃<0.001.